Open Access at Essex
October 7, 2026
Rohan J Naidoo
This research addresses the central complex of how the relationship between the sacred and sexual is problematised and plays out over the course of individuation. Jung articulated it as core to his relationship with Freud breaking down, describing a split between the secular (which becomes sexualised) and the spiritual (which becomes desexualised). Such a division can be understood, via a...
Pedagogy Culture and Society
October 7, 2026
Martin Harant
Debates on mindfulness in education often oscillate between therapeutic affirmation and ideological critique while largely neglecting questions of epistemic and normative justification. This article develops an alternative framework grounded in analytic philosophy of education. Drawing on Metzinger’s (2024) account of mindfulness as epistemic openness, Bowell, Cowan, and Kemp's (2020) critical...
National Board of Examinations Journal of Medical Sciences
October 6, 2026
Background: Trait mindfulness is linked with improving attention, regulation of emotional, and adaptive coping. It can enhance cognitive flexibility and emotional resilience, which are essential things for paramedical students who are facing difficult academic and clinical environments. However, very less evidence exists regarding these relationships in Indian paramedical students. Methods: A...
BMC Nursing
October 6, 2026
Hui Yan, Yue Zhong, Qiang Ji et al.
To evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs), including but not limited to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and other structured MBIs, in improving cognitive and psychological outcomes in adults with neurological disorders. We searched six databases through April 25, 2025. Eight randomized controlled trials were...
Computers in Human Behavior Reports
October 6, 2026
Yuqin Liu, Weitao Zhang, Yilin Wang et al.
Immersive virtual reality (VR) and neurofeedback (NF) are increasingly promoted to enhance mindfulness meditation, yet it remains unknown whether these externally engaging technologies confer lasting benefits for trait mindfulness over sustained practice. This longitudinal randomized controlled trial compared three conditions over a 4-week program (eight sessions) with a three-month follow-up:...
Behavioral Sciences
October 5, 2026
Marcelo Matias, Pedro Joel Rosa
Burnout constitutes a critical psychological and operational challenge in military environments, with potential implications for well-being and occupational functioning. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy has shown beneficial effects on stress and burnout across different populations; however, little is known about how brief online adaptations are perceived by active-duty military personnel...
Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
October 5, 2026
Bo Wang, Zhuzhu Wang, Xiaoming Guan
This study tested a self-report psychological intervention in an 8-week app-based mental training program (MindSprint) using a two-arm, parallel randomized controlled trial involving 70 track athletes allocated to an intervention group (n = 35) or waitlist control (n = 35) and assessed at baseline (T0), week 4 (T1), week 8 (T2), and week 12 follow-up (T3). Five participants withdrew from the...
Psychology and Marketing
October 5, 2026
Sharad Kumar Gupta, Weng Marc Lim, N. Garg
ABSTRACT Mindfulness correlates with higher life satisfaction, yet consumer wellbeing research rarely specifies the behavioral route through which this relationship emerges. Drawing on self‐regulation theory, the research proposes mindful consumption as that route and, drawing on self‐determination theory, evaluates meditation regularity as a boundary condition. Meditation regularity is...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
October 5, 2026
Qiao Ou
preprint
Fronto-occipital theta coupling is treated as a single quantity. We show it decomposes into two timescales with opposite behavior. At the slow timescale (30-s theta power envelope), high spatial coverage correlates with decoupling (rho = -0.252, p = 0.015, N = 93). At the fast timescale (instantaneous phase), the correlation is positive (rho = +0.100, p = 0.34). Across four tasks and two...
Frontiers in Psychology
October 5, 2026
Lipeng Luo, Biwei Xu
Background and purpose Mindfulness training benefits athletes’ psychological states and performance, but how mindfulness translates into competitive experience remains unclear. This study examines whether attentional control is the psychological pathway from trait mindfulness to race flow in competitive swimmers, and whether this pathway extends to objective pacing accuracy. Methods A...